Man Uses Menstrual Cup to Scoop Rice

Yum!

The kitchen isn't exactly the place most people would store their menstrual cup, but sometimes things happen. When one woman left her menstrual cup in the kitchen after confiscating it from her toddler, things went pretty awry.

According to Refinery29, Cindy Hobbs posted a screenshot of a text between her and her husband after she found her menstrual cup in a bag of rice. Naturally, she wondered what the cup she inserts into her vagina each month to catch her menstrual blood was doing in a bag of food. Her husband's answer probably left a bad taste in her mouth.

"I used it to measure the rice last night, it said 3 cups of rice," he said.

Cindy, like us, responded with the sick-face emoji. Instead of using a measuring cup to make the rice for their dinner the previous night, Cindy's husband had used what he seemed to think was a special, squishy rice-measuring tool. It's worth pointing out that the average menstrual cup holds just about 1 ounce of fluid, and there are 8 ounces in a cup. When Cindy explained that his measuring tool was her menstrual cup, he still didn't quite get it.

It's not the end of the world that he used her menstrual cup to measure the rice, but it's a pretty funny story. That said, menstrual cups are totally versatile. They're good for the environment, cost effective, good for any kind of activity, and they apparently double as both children's toys and measuring devices. This mishap seems like a good opportunity for Cindy to have a chat with both her husband and her child about the many options people have when it comes to dealing with the flow of periods.